Louisiana · Nonprofit
BRICOLAGE ACADEMY
BRICOLAGE ACADEMY (Louisiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,456,546 to it, the largest being THE BOOTH-BRICKER FUND ($720,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Bricolage Academy does
Mission
Bricolage Academy advances educational equity by preparing students from diverse backgrounds to be innovators who change the world. This mission is primarily achieved through the operation of an elementary school that serves approximately 60 to 116 students [cont'd on sch o] per grade in pre-k - 8th grade. The school opened in august 2013 with kindergarten and is chartered for grades pre-k - 12.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bricolage completed its twelth successful year in may 2025 with strong academic growth and significant parent demand. The bricolage student experience includes social emotional learning, content instruction (ela, math, science & social studies) using tier 1 rated curriculum as well as arts instruction (vocal music, orchestra, visual art), pe & innovation classes that are taught in fully equipped maker's spaces. Critical thinking, creative problem solving and collaboration are integrated across grade levels and content areas. Students are regularly assessed and a broad range of interventions and support services are provided to students who need them.
$14,369,586 spent$524,764 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,369,586.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.6M to $3.1M (+96%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 85% · 2018 82% · 2019 87% · 2020 93% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% · 2024 96% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of BRICOLAGE ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dr Edward Brown
Interim CEO
Board chair
Dr Arnel Cosey Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $277k → $208k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRICOLAGE ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRICOLAGE ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRICOLAGE ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 51% · 2019 30% · 2020 36% · 2021 43% · 2022 81% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BRICOLAGE ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of BRICOLAGE ACADEMY's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRICOLAGE ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BRICOLAGE ACADEMY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRICOLAGE ACADEMY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRICOLAGE ACADEMY?
- BRICOLAGE ACADEMY (Louisiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,456,546 to it, the largest being THE BOOTH-BRICKER FUND ($720,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRICOLAGE ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,456,546 in grants to BRICOLAGE ACADEMY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRICOLAGE ACADEMY?
- THE BOOTH-BRICKER FUND is the largest funder on record, with $720,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRICOLAGE ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing